Bugatti lifted after 70 years
#1
Posted 13 July 2009 - 06:59
Yesterday a Ascona (Switzerland)
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#3
Posted 13 July 2009 - 07:22
http://www.autoevolu...-lake-8640.html
#4
Posted 13 July 2009 - 07:24
#5
Posted 13 July 2009 - 07:26
We'll see about that!!
#6
Posted 13 July 2009 - 07:59
O M G !!!
'Needless to say, that car is not restorable.'
We'll see about that!!
I wouldn't be surprised, I thought BABs was past it!
#7
Posted 13 July 2009 - 08:20
'So, we have a car built by an Italian manufacturer, first registered in France, found in a Swiss lake. That car travelled a lot!'
#8
Posted 13 July 2009 - 08:51
'Needless to say, that car is not restorable.'
We'll see about that!!
Even if you can't restore it, you've practically got a set of 3D plans to build a replica
#9
Posted 13 July 2009 - 10:11
http://www.bugattibu...076a6b49a6881ef
#10
Posted 13 July 2009 - 17:12
I would say it will be back on the road in 5 years unless someone decides to keep it as a time warp museum piece
terry
#11
Posted 13 July 2009 - 18:07
Edited by Beech_boy, 13 July 2009 - 18:08.
#12
Posted 14 July 2009 - 00:20
Anything's restorable as long as you have the data plate!
That comment is unforgivable!!
#13
Posted 14 July 2009 - 07:40
Simon Thomas
#14
Posted 14 July 2009 - 08:53
#15
Posted 14 July 2009 - 09:02
...On board of a discrete boat in the middle of a moonless night...You have to wonder how it got there, though. As it was 50 metres down, that would imply somewhere in the middle of the lake, which is right on the Italian-Swiss border - and in fact the border cuts across it. Smuggling operation gone wrong? Spoils of war being taken to Switzerland in early '45? Just a thought ....
#16
Posted 14 July 2009 - 09:34
...On board of a discrete boat in the middle of a moonless night...
It the boat was 'discrete', ie in separate parts, that might explain how the car fell into the water?
It's only polite to point out though, that Manel's English is about one million times better than my Spanish...
#17
Posted 14 July 2009 - 10:42
I do understand: You haven't got a clue of Spanish!It the boat was 'discrete', ie in separate parts, that might explain how the car fell into the water?
You got it!
It's only polite to point out though, that Manel's English is about one million times better than my Spanish...
#18
Posted 14 July 2009 - 11:13
I do understand: You haven't got a clue of Spanish!
Absolutely correct Manel, (but you should use a lower case Y after a colon).
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#20
Posted 25 January 2010 - 13:26
The current owner says he does not want to restore it. "Nature took 72 years to form it this way (...) true art should not be altered." The Bugatti is expected to be displayed in Maastricht, the Netherlands before moving to a museum near Los Angeles.
All of this according to today's local newspaper.
#21
Posted 25 January 2010 - 13:41
Why didn't they sell it on, back then. Silly Swiss, I guess.The owners there decided to dump it into the lake in 1937.
#22
Posted 25 January 2010 - 13:49
Again all according to today's newspaper.
#23
Posted 25 January 2010 - 15:12
#24
Posted 25 January 2010 - 15:55
Why didn't they sell it on, back then. Silly Swiss, I guess.;)
They're Swiss, they can't help it. It may seem mad to us, but clearly a tax dodge.
#25
Posted 26 January 2010 - 09:37
#26
Posted 04 June 2013 - 06:18
Story here:
BBC Lake Geneva bus story
Edited by Pullman99, 04 June 2013 - 07:48.